A collaboration between Wellington-based innovation hub, Creative HQ, and the Chengdu government is creating cross-border networks that could promote the capital as a global provider of innovation services.

The last Startup Garage of the year was all about New Zealand startup funding – from seed capital to raising an A round. We heard from a range of voices well versed in tricks of the trade both here in New Zealand and in the US – with Wellington angel investor Dave Moskovitz, AngelHQ manager Dave Allison, COO of 8i Toni Moyes, and Chris Smith, co-founder of AREA360 and creator of STQRY.

Last Thursday, seven of the latest top New Zealand startups took to the stage to pitch to an auditorium of investors at Lightning Lab Manufacturing’s inaugural Demo Day. Lightning Lab Manufacturing is the first start-up accelerator in New Zealand for companies with physical products, and the first vertical to deviate away from Lightning Lab’s traditionally digital programme.